Europe
What were the names of the two conferences held near the end of WWII?
Yalta and Potsdam
The Cold War was between what two countries?
The Soviet Union and the United States
These two plans were put in place to help contain communism by providing economic and military support?
Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine
The name of the Soviet Alliance System?
Warsaw Pact
A race for power, military strength and strong weapons is called?
Arms Race
How many sections was Germany divided into?
4
What two ideas were at "war"?
The name for our Cold War alliance system?
NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The name for a country that is technically independent, but really being controlled by a larger nation?
Satellite Country
The next step up from an Atomic bomb was a(n)
H Bomb
What was the name for the hypothetical wall that divided Europe?
The Iron Curtain
Why was the Cold War "Cold"?
Economic and Political System where a countries economy is controlled by private owners for profit.
Capitalism
The economic and political system under control of one party where the all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
Communism
What year did we land a man on the moon?
1969
Name the physical structure that divided East and West Germany.
Berlin Wall
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union for most of the Cold War?
Josef Stalin
A system of government where the power is in the hands of the people.
Democracy
The Soviet Union officially dissolved in this year.
1991
The first satellite ever in space was a Soviet Satellite names this...
Sputnik
Name the event: Soviet leaders tried to gain total control of this city, but failed when the United States and Britain instead airlifted supplies in.
Berlin Blockade
What was the United States policy toward communism?
Containment
The US president who visited China and began to improve Cold War Relations
Nixon
The name of the former Soviet Union today.
Russia
This treaty helped end the Cold War and put a limit to the number of nuclear weapons countries could have.
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty of 1972